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Kudos: Four free Jews who personify Passover

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 24 Every year the IJN salutes people — known or obscure — who bring freedom into our lives. It is alway time to say ‘thank […]

Some dawns are golden, others are blood red

They laughed at the Nazis, too.? It behooves everyone inside Greece and elsewhere to see the ‘Golden Dawn’ for what it is: a frightening, growing, Nazi-like movement....

Insanity plea is often just an excuse

So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of...

Death saves Hugo Chavez from worse

One shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. So the saying goes. But, regrettably, there are exceptions. Hitler comes to mind. So does Stalin, Pol Pot and a host of other...

Joan Rivers

Read on, and wonder. How could anyone, let alone anyone Jewish, let alone anybody with even a superficial knowledge of the Holocaust, comment on a dress worn by a German...

Turkey’s Erdogan’s crime against truth

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a UNmeeting called Zionism a crime against humanity. Earth to Erdogan: The infamous Zionism=Racism resolution at the UN,...

Latest plea for Pollard

When President Obama travels to Israel this month, he will be presented with a request to let Jonathan Pollard out of prison on the basis of time served. No doubt,...

Denver Academy of Torah at 20

It is hard to imagine driving west on Alameda Avenue without seeing the imposing, proud home of the Denver Academy of Torah. It is hard to believe that it has […]

Rabbi Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, 1932-2013

In 1972, when Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner, came to the BMH, the synagogue had not really recovered from the deaths of Rabbis Samuel Adelman (1966) and Charles Eliezer Hillel...

Kollel milestone

The Denver Community Kollel came to Denver 15 years ago with a hard-to-sell agenda: Torah study. For most in the community, this was remote and mysterious. With patience...